Uncertainty appears in all the different levels of the industry from the detailed process description to multisite manufacturing. The successful utilization of process models relies heavily on the ability to handle system variability. Thus modeling and managing uncertainty in process planning and scheduling has received a lot of attention in the open literature in recent years from chemical eng...

The Hawaii State Asthma Control Program, as a part of state planning, disseminated and collected an asthma needs questionnaire aimed at answering this question: "In your opinion, what asthma-related issues need to be better addressed in Hawaii?" The top five areas of need identified by asthma stakeholders were (1) education, (2) disease management, (3) prevention, (4) healthcare, and (5) support.

The long-term objective of this project is to make health sciences librarians more effective in their role by using emerging technologies to deliver timely continuing education (CE) programs to them regardless of their physical location. The goals of the one-year planning project at the William H. Welch Medical Library are to plan, implement, and evaluate a pilot CE program that includes (1) a ...

OBJECTIVES Inflicted traumatic brain injury associated with Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) is a leading cause of injury mortality and morbidity in infants. A triple-dose SBS prevention program was implemented with the aim to reduce the incidence of SBS. The objectives of this study were to describe the epidemiology of SBS, the triple-dose prevention program, and its evaluation. METHODS Descriptiv...

BACKGROUND Academic medicine is in a state of dramatic transformation. For this reason strategic thinking is the most essential part of educational planning. The main purpose of the present study was developing the strategic educational planning of Ophthalmology in Iran from 2007 to 2010 METHODS A qualitative investigation using focus group discussion has been implemented successfully for dev...

This article describes an innovative approach to reach and educate workers and worker advocates about California's outdoor heat illness prevention standard. In 2010, Cal/OSHA initiated a statewide education campaign to reduce heat-related illnesses and fatalities and increase awareness of the standard's requirements. In Southern California, the UCLA Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program ...

BACKGROUND Patient education is widely recognized as a core component of nursing. Patient education can lead to quality outcomes including adherence, quality of life, patients' knowledge of their illness and self-management. This study aimed to clarify patient education process in teaching hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) in Iran. METHODS This cross-section...